About Mark Phillips

Mark Phillips is an executive leader, author, and strategic thinker whose work bridges organizational performance, communication theory, and the philosophy of decision making. He is known for finding innovative solutions to the most complex challenges.

His executive experience spans start-ups, cutting-edge defense projects, and senior leadership across the automotive and technology sectors, with full P&L ownership, board relations, and large-scale organizational transformation at the center of his practice. He has directed digital transformations processing tens of billions in annual transactions, led business turnarounds, and partnered with boards and executive teams to drive record revenue and profitability through strategic expansion and high-margin innovation.

Mark is the author of Reinventing Communication: How to Design, Lead and Manage High Performing Projects (Routledge) and the editor of The Practitioner’s Handbook of Project Performance: Agile, Waterfall and Beyond (Routledge). He has delivered briefings to senior US Congressional staff and presented to global institutions including NASA, the London School of Economics, PMI, and APM.

His writing and thinking engage both the practice of leadership and its deeper intellectual foundations — from project communication and organizational design to the philosophy of mind, consciousness, and what it means to act well in a world that cannot be predicted.

Mark holds a Master of Applied Economics from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Science in Philosophy and Economics from the London School of Economics.

The opinions expressed on this site are Mark Phillips’s own, offered in a personal capacity, and do not represent the views of any organization, company, employer, client, or professional association with which he is or has been affiliated.